What's new in Boson 1.6
Oct 11, 2021
- This Update fixes several critical bugs, improves mp3 file support and stereo imaging, and adds native M1 support.
New in Boson 1.5.5 (Jul 25, 2018)
- Fixed a bug that would lead to crashes when some wave forms were rendered
- Reduced energy usage by improving wave form rendering performance
- Improved compatibility with newer macOS versions
New in Boson 1.5.1 (Jul 21, 2017)
- Improved waveform rendering performance on Macs with Retina displays
New in Boson 1.5 (Mar 2, 2017)
- Fixed bugs that were reported by our users
- Improved performance
- Improved compatibility with firewire recording devices
New in Boson 1.4.7 (Mar 18, 2016)
- New features:
- Support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- Effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- Support for full screen and split screen mode
- Select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- Shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- Move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- Double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- Double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- Files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- Boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
- It's not possible to drop markers during recording anymore. This would trigger an error message in versions prior to 1.4.2
- The window list in the "Window" menu is now correctly populated
- Clarified some error messages
- Simplified the error report dialog
- Fixed a wave view rendering bug where the wave form wouldn't get updated correctly
- Fixed a bug where the toolbar buttons wouldn't get disabled during recording which could lead to unexpected errors when the user clicked on one of those buttons.
- Improved waveform rendering performance
New in Boson 1.4.6 Build 1460 (Mar 15, 2016)
- New features:
- Support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- Effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- Support for full screen and split screen mode
- Select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- Shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- Move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- Double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- Double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- Files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- Boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
- It's not possible to drop markers during recording anymore. This would trigger an error message in versions prior to 1.4.2
- The window list in the "Window" menu is now correctly populated
- Clarified some error messages
- Simplified the error report dialog
- Fixed a wave view rendering bug where the wave form wouldn't get updated correctly
- Fixed a bug where the toolbar buttons wouldn't get disabled during recording which could lead to unexpected errors when the user clicked on one of those buttons.
New in Boson 1.4.4 Build 1440 (Mar 9, 2016)
- New features:
- Support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- Effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- Support for full screen and split screen mode
- Select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- Shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- Move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- Double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- Double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- Files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- Boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
- It's not possible to drop markers during recording anymore. This would trigger an error message in versions prior to 1.4.2
- The window list in the "Window" menu is now correctly populated
- Clarified some error messages
- Simplified the error report dialog
- Fixed a wave view rendering bug where the wave form wouldn't get updated correctly
New in Boson 1.4.3 Build 1430 (Mar 3, 2016)
- New features:
- Support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- Effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- Support for full screen and split screen mode
- Select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- Shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- Move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- Double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- Double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- Files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- Boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
- It's not possible to drop markers during recording anymore. This would trigger an error message in versions prior to 1.4.2
- The window list in the "Window" menu is now correctly populated
New in Boson 1.4.2 Build 1425 (Feb 22, 2016)
- New features:
- Support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- Effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- Support for full screen and split screen mode
- Select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- Shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- Move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- Double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- Double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- Files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- Boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
- It's not possible to drop markers during recording anymore. This would trigger an error message in versions prior to 1.4.2
- The window list in the "Window" menu is now correctly populated
New in Boson 1.4 Build 1400 (Feb 9, 2016)
- New features:
- support for 3rd party Audio Unit plugins
- effect rack where multiple effects can be queued and applied at once
- select to beginning/end (cmd shift lef/right)
- shift + arrow expands selection to next gridpoint
- move cursor to next/previous marker (ctrl n/p)
- double clicking in a channel select region will select the visible range in the appropriate channel now
- double clicking between two visible markers will now select data between those two markers (hold alt/opt key to ignore markers and select the visible range)
- Bug fixes:
- files now can be saved with a ".mp4" extension when exporting m4a audio (it's still just audio only so DO NOT EDIT VIDEOS with Boson ;)
- boson will now start correctly when there's no recording device attached (record buttons will be disabled for obvious reasons)
New in Boson 1.2.10 Build 1294 (Dec 11, 2015)
- silenced "desired cursor position is beyond document length!" message
- silenced "is not playing" message
- silenced "Stop playback before calling saveToPath()" message
- fixed quitting behavior when a modal window is open
- preparation for upcoming 1.3 update with new features
New in Boson 1.2.9 Build 1291 (Nov 20, 2015)
- fixed error that would sometimes occur on record stop
- fixed a rare crash that would sometimes occur when an incompatible sound card was connected
- fixed NSTrackingArea related crash (if this happens again PLEASE report it to us. this bug is incredibly hard to reproduce!)
- muted annoying "waveform rendering error" message
- fixed illegal memory access on end of recording/playback
- FLAC export will now honor the bitrate settings (thanks to Mueno for the bug report)
New in Boson 1.2.8 Build 1280 (Nov 13, 2015)
- Fixed crash in preferences panel
- Convert to mono can not be invoked on mono documents anymore
- Convert to stereo can not be invoked on stereo documents anymore
New in Boson 1.2.7 Build 1275 (Nov 6, 2015)
- Boson now can save 32bit WAVE files in IEEE sample format which is compatible with Abbleton Live and WaveLab. (Thanks to Tim for the help with this!)
- Fix for "Playback offset is beyond document length" error message
- Fixes for smaller infrequent bugs
New in Boson 1.2.5 Build 1250 (Nov 3, 2015)
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing the default document format
- Fixed a bug that occured when trying to split save a BWD document under some circumstances
- Fixed inconsistency with file references after document was moved